Late spring snow blankets New York in this <a href="http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov" target="outlink">Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer</a> (MODIS) image captured by the <a href="http://aqua.nasa.gov/" target="outlink"> Aqua</a> satellite on April 5, 2004. Snow still covers the tops of the Appalachian Mountains in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virginia. MODIS also detected a few scattered fires, marked in red, particularly in the south where they have probably been set to clear land for agricultural purposes. Sensor: Aqua/MODIS. Data Start Date: 4/5/04.

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